While wondering round the mall I saw this on box in a shop window.

Guessed what this thing actually is? or at least what it does? Zoomed out picture below.

I have this pen that I really like, they were given away free at a “Dog Food Seminar” (No I’m not joking… and no I don’t own a dog. They had good free “people” food so I went.) Now I realise that it’s pink which counts against it but it writes really well and is comfortable to use and I like it, no matter what colour, race or religious preference it may be.

The problem is that the back round plunger thingie (technical term) tends to break off in a way that it can’t be glued on anymore. So I now have 2 of these broken pens that don’t work and I would like to get a replacement pen because I like them so much, preferable in something other than pink. But I can’t find them… admittedly I haven’t looked that hard but I haven’t seen them in any of the stationary sections of the local stores.
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Anyone who lives in South Africa, and especially those of us who live in the “big cities” have at some time or another had a run in with the local minibus taxi drivers. Now you can take out your frustrations on the taxi’s and there drivers in this online game. Found via this story on IOL.
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Admittedly I don’t read my site using a RSS reader so I didn’t notice that my RSS feeds were no longer full text feeds and were being cut off. So thanks must go to fellow blogger, Richard who noticed that the RSS feeds were being truncated. A bit of investigation and it turns out that this is a new “feature”.

If you use the more tag on a post in the new WordPress everything after the tag doesn’t appear in the RSS feed. There is no way to switch off this behavior in standard WordPress but I (well Google) found a simple plugin for WordPress from cavemonkey50 that appears to fix the problem.

So let me know if it’s still broken or not. [You should see “Greetins Earthlings” below if it worked.]

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So a few weeks ago I moved in with a friend (Ryan) into a flat, because of this I’ve been without Internet until the ADSL line went in. The flat is a ground floor, two bedroom flat in Boston, near Tyger Valley Capetown.

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I stay with some friends in a part of Capetown called Penhill, which consists mostly of small holdings and is generally a rather peaceful neighborhood, this Saturday though the peaceful sounds of country life (Police sirens, people shouting, birds shouting, dogs barking, quad bikes and Toyota Hilux Bakkies racing around dirt roads.) was shattered by the warning beeps of trucks backing up and chainsaws.

The local municipality had decided to “trim” a few trees that might come down on power lines. I like trees, especially those that are taller than me but I do understand that they need to be trimmed to ensure that a branch doesn’t come down on a power line on a cold winters morning depriving the local inhabitants of a good hot cup of coffee in the morning.

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